Scholars who favored Irish parallels directly spoke out against pro-Scandinavian theories, citing them as unjustified.

Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Scholars who are not Christian Scientists rely on it, but church members strongly disfavor it.

Scholars like Rudolf E. Kalman and Aleksandr Lyapunov are well-known among the people who have shaped modern control theory.

" Scholars are unsure whether it means the " one who gathers " or the " one among the gathering.

Scholars who believe Paul wrote Titus date its composition from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete ( Titus 1: 5 ).

Scholars who support this theory believe that a famous letter from Pliny to Emperor Trajan concerning the delation of Christians reflects the situation faced by the addressees of this epistle.

Scholars suggest they are descendants of early Austroasiatic-speaking agriculturalists, who brought both their language and their technology to the southern part of the peninsula approximately 4, 000 years ago.

Scholars and observers who do not believe that Islam is a political ideology include Fred Halliday, John Esposito and Muslim intellectuals like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Scholars believe that the commentary which appears under Rashi's name in those books was compiled by the students of Rabbi Saadiah of the Rhine, who incorporated material from Rashi's yeshiva.

Scholars who studied the narrations according to their context ( matn ) as well as their transmission ( isnad ) in order to discriminate between them were influential in the development of early Muslim philosophy.

Scholars who have talked about semiosis in their sub-theories of semiotics include C. S. Peirce, John Deely, and Umberto Eco.

Scholars now believe that at most 27 million Soviet citizens died during the war, including some 8. 7 million soldiers who fell in battle against Hitler's armies or died in POW camps.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

Scholars who have examined these claims tend to believe that while the slave songs may certainly have expressed hope for deliverance from the sorrows of this world, these songs did not present literal help for runaway slaves.

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

* Scholars who have denounced eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital and official life in Han Dynasty China.

There are also 40 Queen's Scholars who are pupils at Westminster School ( the School has its own Governing Body ).

Scholars assume Gallienus ' efforts were placed with Aureolus, the office who betrayed him, and the defeat of the Herulians was left to his successor, Claudius Gothicus.

Scholars outside China see this re-working of the definition of Maoism as providing an ideological justification for what they see as the restoration of the essentials of capitalism in China by Deng and his successors, who sought to " eradicate all ideological and physiological obstacles to economic reform ".

Scholars accept that Brahui could only have migrated to Balochistan from central India after 1000 AD.

Scholars dispute both the year and country of his birth, although most now accept that he was born in 1637 in Helsingborg, Skåne, at the time part of Denmark ( but now part of Sweden ).

Most universities adhere to the Council of Graduate Schools ' Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees, and Assistants, which gives applicants until April 15 to accept or reject offers that contain financial support.

Scholars accept that the civilizations of Norte Chico in present-day Peru and that of Mesoamerica emerged independently from those in Eurasia.

Those selected to become Yeager Scholars will have until early April to accept the Society's invitation.

Scholars such as Clint Johnson, Robert James Branham, and Stephen J. Hartnett accept the claims of black origin for the song or at least allow for the possibility.

Scholars usually refer to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible as the Pentateuch, a term first used in the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria, meaning five books, or as the Law, or Law of Moses.

Scholars have also analyzed the phrase “ I will take you .” Rose associates this term with a mission, change, or protection.

Scholars such as German linguist Johann Gottfried Herder viewed tribes as coherent biological ( racial ) entities, using the term to refer to discrete ethnic groups.

Scholars, however, use it as a technical term regarding legislative control of local appropriations.

Scholars studying the sociology of religion have almost unanimously adopted this term as a neutral alternative to the word cult, which is often considered derogatory.

Scholars and commentators have not agreed on who should be included under the term Melungeon.

Scholars disagree in their definition of the term in relation to the Beothuk, and the parties have differing political agendas.

Scholars making this distinction use the term " acculturation " only to address large-scale cultural transactions.

Scholars using the term " prison industrial complex " have argued that the trend of “ hiring out prisoners ” is a continuation of the slavery tradition.

Scholars from a variety of fields study phenomena that can be described under the umbrella term of CMC ( see also Internet studies ).

Scholars disagree on the appropriateness of the term " Warring States Period " ( which is the Chinese term borrowed by the Japanese in calling this period " sengoku jidai ").

Scholars frequently apply the term to American elections and occasionally to other countries.

Scholars have used the term " Aramaization " for the process by which the Akkadian / Assyro-Babylonian peoples became Aramaic-speaking during the later Iron Age.

Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as distinct from the Homeric ones.

Scholars use the term to refer to classical liberalism ; the term also can mean economic liberalism, social liberalism or neoliberalism ; it can simply refer to the politics of the Liberal Democrat party ; it can occasionally have the imported US meaning, including the derogatory usage by conservatives.

Scholars such as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that terms like " illiberal democracy " are inappropriate for some of these states, because the term implies that these regimes are, at their heart, democracies that have gone wrong.

Scholars such as F. A. Bischoff, Charles Hartman and Martin Boord have shown that the Tibetan literature widely asserts that the Sanskrit for their term phurba is kīlaya ( with or without the long i ).

Scholars have referred to the term as " derisive " and a " handy ideological tool ".

Scholars cannot tell from records whether the writers of the time, when using the term Tonto Apache, were referring to Yavapai or Apache, or those mixed bands.

Scholars assume that Sheela-na-Gig is imported from Mesopotamia where the term nu-gug refers to some sort of sacred prostitutes.

Scholars like Sheldon Pollock have used the term Sanskrit Cosmopolis to describe the region, and argued for millennium-long cultural exchanges without necessarily involving migration of peoples or colonisation.

Stretching from 2001 to the present and growing with each new term, the library ranges from introductory surveys of major Hindu themes, texts and traditions ; single lectures on topics like Women in the Mahabharata or Poetry in the Vedas ; discussions with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Scholars, and seminars on Hindi Cinema.